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A resident at an assisted living facility had significant issues with constipation and bowel issues for which she was prescribed certain medications. The resident claimed that the nursing facility did not administer the medication as required by her physician and that she began showing signs of an obstruction after one week of failing to have a bowel movement. Enemas and other treatments were administered by nurses at the facility, but ultimately she was taken to the emergency room with a ruptured colon.
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An experienced risk manager says she was fired by her hospital for reporting an Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) violation after hospital executives discouraged reporting it for fear of a large penalty. She is now suing the hospital, which denies her allegations.
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The lawsuit filed recently by Margaret O'Connor, RN, the risk manager at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, MA, until she was fired recently after reporting an EMTALA violation, outlines what she says was an act of retaliation by hospital leaders.
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A hospital in Georgia is facing many questions after a former employee was indicted for what authorities say was intentional fraud in entering negative results for mammograms that, in fact, had not been read by a radiologist.
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The employee in question is still facing criminal charges, but Perry (GA) Hospital has confirmed that a technician faked mammogram results.
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A recent shooting incident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore shows the need to prepare for gun violence, but it also illustrates the limitations of any prevention program, security experts say.
